the unfortunate reality of translating cuneiform
the unfortunate reality of translating cuneiform
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Farmers today don’t talk about much else, either.
The difference is now farmers are only 2% of the population so our tablets are full of other inane ramblings instead.
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I don't know if I was supposed to read it like a Bill Wurtz video. But I did.
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The sun is a deadly laser!
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They used a monopoly card to take everyone's clay, which significantly delayed the other players' settlements
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Do we really know that's the extent though. There are hundreds of thousands that haven't been deciphered. Maybe they wrote limericks, we don't know.
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We know it's not the entire extent because we also have a bunch of their literature and history in cuneiform. We even have some jokes! Although none of the ones I have read really survive the translation and time gap... at all. However, stuff like agricultural records are the bulk of it by the numbers simply because that was the stuff that was useful to ordinary people day to day
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They also invented selling subpar copper, which led to the invention of writing to customer service about said subpar copper.
The Sumerians had fine metallurgy! Don't let one guy set their reputation. One admittedly very silly guy but nevertheless
They must have, otherwise that person wouldn't be so angry to have received the inferior stuff! They expected much better.